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Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

1st - Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73
1st - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
2nd - Edith Craig, actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71
2nd - Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at 75
2nd - Christy Ring Irish hurler (b. 1920)
4th - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
5th - Vicente Ascone, composer, dies at 81
6th - Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83
7th - Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
7th - Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72
9th - Barbara Mullen, actress (Talk of a Million), dies at 64
11th - Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
16th - Jean Monnet, French economist/CEO (ECSC), dies at 90
17th - Merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies
19th - Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video), dies at 65
19th - Richard Beckinsale, actor (Doing Time, Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31
22nd - Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated by the IRA in The Hague, Holland
22nd - Ben Lyon, actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78
23rd - Philip Bourneuf, actor (Big Night, Frankenstein), dies at 71
23rd - Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
24th - Yvonne Mitchell, writer, dies at 53
25th - Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
26th - Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63
27th - Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
28th - Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80
29th - Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82
30th - Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb